Can not activate Sharepoint Server Publishing

I recently upgraded from SP2007 to SP2010 thru DB attached.  I noticed one of my site collection's Sharepoint Server Publishing Infrastructure and Sharepoint Server Publishing were not activated. I went ahead and activate the infrastructure on the site collection but when I try to activate the publishing on the site level it failed. I try to activate using command line:

stsadm -o activatefeature -name PublishingWeb -url http://mydomain.com/test
but got the following....

Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to initialize some site properties for Web at Url: 'http://mydomain.com/test' OriginalException: List does not exist.
The page you selected contains a list that does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user.

After some further research, it looks like the hidden "Quick Deploy Item" and a host of other key list were not there.  Now sure how this happened but I have tried various suggestions to no avail. 

SOLUTION:  Okay... I open a support ticket with MS Support. We ended up solving the issue by issuing by following comannds:

stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishing\feature.xml -url http://...-force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishingresources\feature.xml -url http://...- -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishingSite\feature.xml -url http://...- -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishingweb\feature.xml -url http://...- -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename publishinglayouts\feature.xml -url http://...- -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename navigation\feature.xml -url http://...- -force

NOTE: You need to execute the aboe on all subsites that are affected. Hope this help someone.